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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2007
Applicants:
Nasser A. Kurd, Portland, OR (US);
Chaodan Deng, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas P. Thomas, Beaverton, OR (US);
Inventors:
Nasser A. Kurd, Portland, OR (US);
Chaodan Deng, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas P. Thomas, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A processing device includes a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) system with an adjustable power supply designed to track the power supply provided to one or more of the cores in the processor device. The PLL no longer operates at a fixed voltage level that is held constant and independent from the requested core frequency or the core digital voltage, but rather the power supply to the phase locked loop is adjusted along with the main power supply to the processor core.